2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Russians are accustomed to the fact that all big holidays end with bright fireworks, accompanied by the roar of cannon shots and the smell of smoke. But at the summer cottage, you can create a man-made floral fireworks, silent and exuding pleasant aromas, turning every summer day into a real holiday
Nature itself took care of the festive mood, showing the world a huge number of plants that create a lively and fragrant fireworks display with their leaves and flowers. Let's dwell on a few of them.
Miscanthus chinese
Perennial plants of the genus Miscanthus (Latin Miscanthus) will easily overshadow artificial fireworks with their beauty. They firmly hold the lead among decorative cereals, decorating all kinds of gardens with their leaves and inflorescences.
In the main photo, he spreads his tough linear leaves and loose panicles of inflorescences
Miscanthus chinese (lat. Miscanthus sinensis). The surface of its leaves is rough to the touch, and a thick rib runs in the middle of the leaf plate. Stems in favorable conditions (fertile soil, sunny place and humid air) rise to a height of three meters. Its spectacular panicle inflorescences, depending on the variety, of which there are more than a hundred, can be pure white with a touch of silver, golden, or have shades from pale pink to brownish-burgundy. Leaves also love to experiment with colors ranging from the traditional green to pinkish, yellowish or brownish hues. The leaf plate can be additionally decorated with stripes of shades contrasting with the main background.
In the wild, the plant is quite thermophilic, but in culture, many varieties grow successfully in the middle zone of our country, in need of shelter for the winter.
Einehead Zabel
The genus Eryngium (lat. Eryngium) has more than 250 species of amazingly picturesque, but thorny herbaceous plants in its ranks. When you meet this blue miracle of nature among green plants, you stop, mesmerized by strong blue stems, openwork carved leaves and blue heads of inflorescences, located on the thorny leaves of the wrapper.
In the photo you can admire one of the species of the genus with the name “
Einehead Zabel . Each bright blue stem of a branching plant ends in an amazing inflorescence in the form of an elongated head, sitting on silvery leaves of the envelope. The leaves of the envelope diverge in different directions with spiny rays. Their silvery surface and inflorescence, shining with a metallic sheen, reflect the rays of the sun, creating the impression of a delightful unearthly fireworks.
Dimorfoteka
If Miscanthus Chinese loves humid places, then
Dimorfoteka(lat. Dimorphotheca) is a native of the arid regions of Africa and Australia. Dimorphoteka is a close relative of Calendula, and therefore some species of the genus are called "African marigolds".
Among the species of the genus Dimorphoteka, the appearance of which is typical for plants of the Asteraceae family, that is, the inflorescence-basket consists of marginal asexual flowers, which are usually called petals, and middle hermaphrodite flowers, some forms stand out in which marginal flowers have an unusual configuration, as on the presented photo.
Such species are quite suitable for creating a fireworks flower garden, if they are planted in groups among the usual annuals.
Bow of christoph
Among the numerous plant species of the genus Onion (lat. Allium), the number of which exceeds the number "900", not all plants are used by humans for food and medicine. Many species are very decorative and have long found a place in garden flower beds. Among them and
Bow of christoph (lat. Allium cristophii).
Although the Bow of Christophe does not differ in height, growing, as a rule, up to forty centimeters, its huge globular inflorescences formed by small star-shaped flowers look like miniature flashes of festive fireworks. Only, unlike the "heavenly" fireworks, which last ten to fifteen minutes at most, flower "flashes" delight a person almost the entire summer season.
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